Kids behaving badly

A break in at a local farmhouse is making news, and what’s interesting isn’t just the act by irresponsible, disrespectful teens, but the homeowner’s reaction.

Brian Holloway (yes, former N.E. Patriot) discovered his Rensselaer County home trashed, and he’s launched a website called “Help Me Save 300,”geared not just toward catching the perpetrators but intervening before partying gets them killed.

I know one thing, if my child was involved I would want to know everything NOW; we are old school disciplinarians, we do not sit back, we take action, we step in and take charge. It’s so easy for kids to get off track if we let them; being a real parent is a full time, no vacations, no breaks responsibility, for sure. And we must teach our kids to be accountable.

He continues: What is even more dangerous and shocking beyond the crimes, drugs and alcohol was reading the tweets and hearing them celebrate their destruction and documenting their crimes.That’s how I know they are in real trouble and have put themselves in harm’s way.

@ Magpies, yes NE is Beautiful but NE kids behave better? You must live under a rock. They are all the same every where, but if we have to go in that direction let me remind you of the NE boy that left a bomb on the street in Boston & held the city in lock down for 24 hours.Think before you type this kind of stuff.

It’s awful that kids would take advantage of a vacant house and throw a party and cause damage. Their bragging got them caught and will ultimately lead to their being held accountable for it. I feel awful for Mr. Holloway and his family to have to experience this. But, to be honest, the website confuses me a bit. He talks about wanting to help save these kids, but doesn’t really have a plan of action or anything, and the donation he requests on the site doesn’t go toward helping him create one or do something to save the kids, it goes to fixing the things that happened to his house. I feel awful about the house, but I’ll be honest, I’m not going to help pay for its repair. With a list of 300 students that he can link to the party, pressing charges and having them pay restitution will cover all the expenses of repair and teach the kids a lesson. Just my thoughts.

Terrible story, such disrespect the kids showed they should definitely have to at least do community service and restitution. Many of the kids on the helpsave300 website are not the least bit remorseful. Some are bragging the party was on ESPN And they made it. The parents of these kids need to do the right thing and make them pay, take away their I phones, cars etc Luckily no one was killed that night with all the drunken debauchery and driving. Really a shame this happened to the gentleman and the kids are not showing any remorse.I can see Mr Holloway is struggling with not wanting to press charges but some of these kids deserve it especially the ones bragging about it that he actuqally had listed on his website ,to them its a joke. Id be so ashamed if this was my child.

I hope Mr Holloway continues to read the kids tweets. The young 16 yr old girl who took the pictures that ended up on Espn is actually bragging on Twitter she quote made it her pictures are on ESPN. Her parents need to do the right thing and contact Mr Holloway with an apology from the kid and restitution. Sorry Mr Holloway not all teens in our area are bad, a few bad apples have left a mark on our community. Whoever supplied the alcohol to the kids most who were underage should also be prosecuted. The level of drunkness escalated the damage. Kids behaving badly is an understatement more like kids acting like animals. How did these parents not know their 16 and 17 yrs olds were in Stephenstown? How did they get there? They are all fortunate they got home alive and didn’t kill anyone on the way back. I hope these parents instill punishment for their kids behavior and start caring about where they are and what they are doing.

Mr. Holloway…total class! He raised his kids, they are making him proud by being in college making something of themselves. Those kids who destroyed that home…totally classless!
Out of all those kids and you know some/most of them had to know that what was going on was wrong and SHOULD HAVE called the cops! My hope is two fold: 1) that the parents will see their kids in this story and turn them in! 2) That the police will track down enough of these kids and start prosecuting the ones who where there to the full extent of the law, especially the who won’t turn in others who were there doing the vandalism